Metastable Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Applications

Discover the cutting-edge progress of a promising class of materials significant for use in energy technologies as catalysts

Materials are said to be metastable-phases if they can retain their stability when subjected only to slight disturbances. Materials in metastable-phases can have very different properties from those in a state of equilibrium, and can perform very differently under conditions of experimentation, work, or industrial use. Metastable-phase materials are therefore a promising area of study in a variety of different fields, including cutting-edge industries.

Metastable-Phase Materials constitute a wide-ranging overview of these materials, their properties, and their applications. Beginning with an overall characterization of metastable-phase materials and their normal modes of synthesis, it characterizes the most important branch of metastable-phase materials and reviews a range of catalytic applications. The result is a critical contribution to materials science and catalytic chemistry with potentially far-reaching implications.

Metastable-Phase Materials readers will also find:

• Treatment of metastable-phase metal materials, 2D metastable-phase materials, and spin-dependent metastable-phase materials
• Detailed discussion of metastable-phase material applications in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, thermalcatalysis, and more
• State-of-the-art technological applications in a myriad of areas

Metastable-Phase Materials are ideal for materials scientists, catalytic chemists, inorganic chemists, photochemists, electrochemists, organic chemists, and the libraries that serve these communities.

Qi Shao, PhD, is an associate professor at the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, China. She received her PhD in applied physics from City University of Hong Kong in 2016.

Zhenhui Kang, PhD, is currently a professor at the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and the Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices in Soochow University, China.

Mingwang Shao, PhD, is a professor at the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and the Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Cabon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, China. He received his PhD from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003.